Kat

“I think you intentionally overreacted. Like killing a fly with a baseball bat, just to make sure it never bothers you again.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Visions

“You!” Adolin exclaimed. “Me!” Wit replied. He swung down from the top of the carriage and performed a flowery bow. “Ever at your service, Brightlord Kholin.” “What did you do with my usual carriage driver?” “Nothing.” “Wit—” “What, you’re implying that I hurt the poor fellow? Does that sound like me, Adolin?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“We are ghosts in Victorian gowns,
lilac apparitions with parasols…”
― Simone Muench

“It is 1908.

The stars shone above in the night sky as a steamship floated among the clouds.

It's captain, Captain Otra, looked at his watch. He was ahead of his delivery schedule by 30 minutes to deliver the British Government it's much-needed order of concentrated milk and goat cheese from the shores of New Zealand.

He had inherited the business from his wife's father. His wife had passed roughly 5 years ago.

His daughter Lux Otra was tinkering for the hundredth time on her grandfather's sky faring compass, taking it apart and putting it back together. Each time she fixed, the compass worked perfectly again. Memorizing these intricate steps would give her a temporary satisfaction but now she couldn't do it anymore. She set the compass down and sighed in frustration.”
― bellatuscana, Saving Time